Annual Review 2011-12 - National Galleries of Scotland

The National Galleries of
Scotland undertakes research
of the highest academic quality
on its collection, documentary
archives and other specialist
resources which we hold on
the public’s behalf, as well as
on works of art relating to our
collection which are lent to our
temporary exhibitions.
Publications and
Research
Research allows us to understand the
national art collection more fully, unlocking
information of relevance to our many
different audiences. It underpins exhibitions,
our education programme and publications.
A selection of our achievements in
the period of this review are listed below.
Symposia, Lectures and Seminars
ARTIST ROOMS: August Sander and Weimar
Germany, Scottish National Gallery,
Edinburgh, 13 May 2011. This one-day
symposium, featuring expert speakers from
the UK, Ireland and Germany, was a collaboration
between the National Galleries of
Scotland and the new VARIE Research
Forum for German Visual Culture at the
University of Edinburgh.
Dürer, Holbein and the Art of the Northern
Renaissance, international study day,
Scottish National Gallery and The Queen’s
Gallery, Edinburgh, 6 October 2011
Challenging Michelangelo: Goltzius’s
Invisible Drawing, research
seminar, Scottish National Gallery,
14 December 2011
Portrait of the Nation – the Conservator’s
Perspective, lecture, Royal College of
Surgeons of Edinburgh, 15 December 2011
Unreliable Sources? Researching Van Gogh’s
Friendship with the Glasgow Art Dealer
Alex Reid, lecture, Nineteenth-century Art,
Architecture and Design Group, University
of Glasgow, 16 February 2012
© Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander
Archiv, Köln / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn and DACS, London 2012
Institutional Research
Anne Galastro, An Institutional History
of the Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art: Tensions, Paradoxes and
Compromises, AHRC Collaborative
Doctoral Award, University of
Edinburgh, 2011
Publications
ISBN 978 1 906270 41 4
Dürer’s Fame, National Galleries of
Scotland, Edinburgh, June 2011
English Drawings and Watercolours in
the National Gallery of Scotland 1600–
1900, National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh, July 2011
Elizabeth Blackadder, National Galleries
of Scotland, Edinburgh, July 2011
Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings,
National Galleries of Scotland,
Edinburgh, July 2011
dürer’s fame
D Ü R E R’S
F A M E
F.C.B. Cadell, National Galleries of
Scotland, Edinburgh, October 2011
A History of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery, National Galleries of
Scotland, Edinburgh, December 2011
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